Introducing Azure Arc

Introducing Azure Arc
Mohamed Wali
@_Mwaly
Author, Speaker & DevOps Engineer

Agenda
Multi-Cloud Era
Introducing Azure Arc
Azure Arc Offerings
Demo

We’re living in a
Multi-Cloud World

use multiple public clouds
and one or more private
or dedicated clouds
81%
of public cloud users
choose two or more
providers/platforms
81%
of enterprises have multi-
cloud strategy
84%
Multi-Cloud Statistics
Gartner RightscaleIDC

Multi-Cloud vs Hybrid Cloud
• A composition of a public cloud and one or more
private/public cloud
• Avoids vendor lock-in within a single cloud provider
• Multiple identity providers
• It’s required sometimes to spread services across
multiple clouds to satisfy continuity plans and
maintain resiliency
• Data security is a shared responsibility between the
cloud provider and the organization
• For governance/compliance purposes you might
have to store part of your services in a specific region
which is not covered by all providers
Multi-Cloud
• A form of multi-cloud
• A composition of private and public cloud
• More responsibility as well as more control over the
data and its security
Hybrid Cloud

• No proper way to apply governance policies for servers across different environments
• No single compliance view for the different environments
• Hard to maintain compliance and security across the different environments
• Too much infrastructure running everywhere with much effort to manage them
• No unified experience able to manage the entire multi/hybrid cloud
What is Multi/Hybrid Cloud Missing?

What is Azure Arc?
Bring Azure services and management to any infrastructure
Azure Arc is a set of technologies that extends Azure management and enables Azure
services to run across on-premises, multi-cloud, and edge.
Run Azure
data
services
anywhere
Extend Azure
management
across your
environments
Implement
Azure
security
anywhere
Adopt cloud
practices on-
premises

What does Azure Arc Offers?
Organize and govern
across environments
Databases, Kubernetes clusters,
and servers sprawling across on-
premises, edge and multi-cloud
environments
Manage Kubernetes
Apps at scale
Deploy and manage Kubernetes
applications across environments
using DevOps
Run data services
anywhere
Automated patching, upgrades,
security and scale on-demand

• Available in Public Preview
• Asset organization and inventory with a unified view in
the Azure Portal
• Universal governance anywhere through Azure Policy
• Built-in server compliance rules
• Central compliance view across all servers
• Server owners can view and remediate to meet their
compliance
• MSPs can implement governance for their customer’s
environment
Azure Arc for Servers
O n-premises
& ho sted
Multi -cloud
Azure Management
(Azure Resource Manager, Azure Policy,
Azure Portal, API, CLI…)

• Available in Private Preview
• Asset organization and inventory with a unified view in the
Azure Portal across all locations
• At scale configuration and deployment based on
subscription, resource groups, and tags
• GitOps-based model for deploying configuration as code to
one or many clusters
• Application deployment and update at scale
• Source control based Safe deployment procedures when
rolling new applications and configurations
• Developer tooling agnostic - Use the tools they want.
Azure Arc for Kubernetes
Azure Management
(Azure Resource Manager, Azure Policy,
Azure Portal, API, CLI…)

• Available in Private Preview
• Any infrastructure, any K8s
• Always on the latest, no end-of-support
with evergreen SQL in Azure SQL DB
• Elastic scale on-premises with
PostgreSQL Hyperscale
• Azure SQL Database Edge with built-in AI
for real-time edge analytics
• Automation at scale with unified
management of all data & AI assets
• Market leading security & governance
consistently deployed everywhere
Azure Arc for Data Services
Edge – real-time processing challenges
Azure SQL Database on Azure Arc, no EOS;
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Hyperscale
on Azure Arc
Automated APIs with K8s for fast CI/CD
K8s of choice on any OEM hardware
Private Cloud - Enterprise business systems
Azure SQL Database Edge with
built-in AI, consistent security
OEM edge servers/workstations
No custom code needed, AI and
streaming built-in to database
Azure data services
Sensors
Actuators
K8s management
Azure Policy
Azure Role-based control
Azure Security Center
Operational databases
Analytics solutions
Azure Arc

• West US 2
• East US
• West Europe
• Southeast Asia
Supported Regions

• Windows Server 2012 R2 and higher (including Windows Server Core)
• Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04
• CentOS Linux 7
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
• Amazon Linux 7
Supported Operating Systems

Demo: Playing Around with Azure Arc for
Servers

Upcoming updates about Azure Arc
• Azure Arc and Kubernetes: a Developer Story:
https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions/42d3ed24-6773-45c8-82bd-
6dec4a583c89?source=sessions
• Ask the Team: Azure Arc Data Services:
https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions/29dc93ae-3d15-4d3d-8222-
2ab37c21126e?source=sessions
• Focus Group: Azure Arc for Private Clouds:
https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions/f2985f71-3cca-4145-bc7f-
cd7a7c966215?source=sessions
• Azure Hybrid Virtual Event: https://info.microsoft.com/ww-
registration-azure-hybrid-virtual-event.html

• Does locking an Arc machine on Azure lock it on its original location?
No
• Can I run commands against the Arc machines like Azure VMs?
No
• Can I provision VMs on other Cloud Providers with Azure Arc?
No
• Is the session done?
Yes
Questions?

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